Chinese Railroad Workers Project

Chinese Railroad Workers Project

Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toiled at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America’s first Transcontinental
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Railroad. The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project seeks to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on the Transcontinental Railroad helped to shape the physical and social landscape of the American West.

Stanford University Syllabi

Stanford University Syllabi

Office of Strategic Services Maps

Office of Strategic Services Maps

The Office of Strategic Services was created during World War II in order to gather intelligence in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. Thousands of maps were made to
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order and later distributed to libraries across the United States. These maps were either individually produced or were part of reports. The OSS was terminated in September 1945.

Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai

Film Archive

Israeli filmmaker, Amos Gitai, is known for his work on themes related to the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Holocaust. This exhibit showcases the Amos Gitai film
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archive which contains video, still images, and scripts from many of his films.

The Baltic Way

The Baltic Way

History and Culture in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania 1918–2018

This online exhibit is based on a physical exhibit that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Baltic countries and was displayed in Cecil H. Green Library in 2018.
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Stanford Libraries and Hoover Institution Library &amp; Archives staff worked together to create the exhibition using materials from their respective collections related to the history and culture of the Baltic region.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

Fire insurance maps are produced to provide information to insurers about the composition and use of buildings in order to provide correct underwriting of policies.
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These maps, primarily produced in the United States by the Sanborn Company, are now historically important documents of the towns and cities from the start of the late 19th Century.

"The First Hebrew City"

"The First Hebrew City"

Early Tel Aviv through the Eyes of the Eliasaf Robinson Collection

The Jewish settlement that became the city of Tel Aviv was established in 1909. Almost everything in this collection dates from before 1948, the year that the State of
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Israel proclaimed its independence. The collection documents a vast range of private and public activity in Tel Aviv during its first four decades. Above all, the materials in the collection demonstrate one of the twentieth century’s boldest and most effective acts of social engineering: the revival and enforced use of the Hebrew language.

The Stanford Family

The Stanford Family

Barry L. Ruderman Conference on Cartography Exhibits

Barry L. Ruderman Conference on Cartography Exhibits

Maps and atlases curated by the conference speakers on exhibit at the David Rumsey Map Center

The Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography occurs every other year, beginning in 2017. The conference speakers curate a physical exhibit on view at the
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center. This website is a digital companion to that exhibit.

Medieval Collections at Stanford

Medieval Collections at Stanford

Resources for Research and Teaching

This Spotlight Exhibition features objects and manuscripts in Stanford Collections that illuminate the history and culture of the medieval world, especially in Europe
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and the Mediterranean from 300-1600 CE.

Stanford Photos

Queer @ Stanford

Queer @ Stanford

R. Buckminster Fuller Collection

R. Buckminster Fuller Collection

Architect, Systems Theorist, Designer, and Inventor

The R. Buckminster Fuller Collection contains over 1,400 linear feet of personal and professional papers, manuscripts, drawings, blueprints, audio and video recordings,
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and models. Over 700 media elements have been reformatted and more than 5,000 slides as well as the clippings index and Bucky's schedule of lectures, projects, and days. All of these are available for research use in the department's reading room.

Stanford in the News

Stanford in the News

Project South

Project South

This collection contains transcribed meetings and interviews with Civil Rights workers in the South recorded by several Stanford students affiliated with the campus
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radio station KZSU during the summer of 1965. The project was sponsored by the Institute of American History at Stanford.

Copyright Renewals

Copyright Renewals

The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection

The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection

Archive of the world's longest running jazz festival

This site provides historical information about the Monterey Jazz Festival, one of the premiere jazz institutions in the world, and information about the recordings
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from the festival that feature the most significant jazz musicians of our time.

Joint Committee on Atomic Energy

Joint Committee on Atomic Energy

The Joint Committee on Atomic Energy was established by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 and existed from 1946 to 1977. It was created to "make continuing studies of the
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activities of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and of problems relating to the development, use, and control of atomic energy."

GATT Digital Library 1947 - 1994

GATT Digital Library 1947 - 1994

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

This exhibit provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international
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commerce and the reduction of trade barriers among member states from 1947-1994.

Collecting in Life and Death

Collecting in Life and Death

The Curatorial Legacy of Leland Stanford Jr.

Leland Stanford Jr., only son of Governor and railroad tycoon Leland Stanford Sr. and heiress Jane Lathrop Stanford, died suddenly in 1884, just shy of his 16th
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birthday. Renowned curators reckoned Leland Jr.’s early death a great loss to “the art-training” of the American people. Was his collecting that remarkable? Or was it a boyhood hobby amplified by his parents’ loss and remembrance?

Jarndyce 19th Century Novel Collection

Jarndyce 19th Century Novel Collection

A demonstration exhibit for full text and content search

This exhibit showcases one of the the ways in which Stanford Libraries currently supports full text and content search, using a small sub-set of digitized books from
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the Jarndyce 19th Century Novel Collection.